This authority is very strange; it never wastes time or loses track if any issue was related to its “supreme” interests. Despite the “Kataeb’s” amputated resignation from the failed government, as Prime Minister Tamam Salam describes it, knowing that he clings unto this government as well, and despite the crises of US pressure on banks and the national economy, and amid the paralysis in the Parliament, living with a presidential vacuum, and mounting security fears from the “brothers” in “ISIS” and “Al-Nusra”, this authority finds the time to falsify documents for “Ramlet Al Baida” beach, which the spiritual father of the government and its original owner promised that he will return to the “Beirutis” once he wins the municipal elections.
The authority also finds all the time to pass and transfer the construction of a hospital from its already decided on site, to the last green space in Beirut, meaning “Horsh Beirut”. The authority is divided for reasons that no one knows, except those who predict the future, and this is very clear, especially when the authority permits committing an environmental massacre in janneh Dam, and at the same time, opposes that, and publishes studies and documents, that were carefully hidden before the outbreak of the dispute.
However, the ongoing scandal, which those in the authority do not have any timing for, mainly has to do with garbage and coastal landfills that require contractors and construction companies, and they do not need at all skilled companies in the field of landfills, particularly coastal landfills, according to the terms of reference and tenders which accompany them, and according to the precise division of interests and quotas that followed uncovering the major scandal regarding the deportation of wastes and the role of “Chinook company.”
From Ain Dara to Ramlet al-Baida beach, and from good measures and resolving conflicts to handling critical issues, and from abstinence, and rising above narrow interests to the smell of deals that block noses, and even to the smell of the current political authority… a real question arises: Isn’t there and a limit to corruption? Isn’t there a bottommost level for failure?
Isn’t there a limit for the deals and looting of the country under the excuse of responsibility? This is the political environment, and the environment of those in power in Lebanon. So, do we have the right to ask about the sad reality of the environment in Lebanon?
